We have seen how important a role productivity plays in automobile industry in our previous article, “Productivity in Automobile”. Better productivity is always desirable as it can increase the profit margins for the company by substantial numbers. Similarly, decrease in productivity cannot only cause loss to the company, but the consumers as well. We also saw the various inputs, on which productivity is dependent, material handling being the most delicate one to handle. Improper material handling can have disastrous effects on productivity because of its limited value add. We have always emphasized that autonomous means are the best for all the material handling requirements. In today’s topic, RAGHAV in Automobile,…

All of us are now well acquainted with basics of material handling. We also know that, although manual labor is still prevalent, companies have started turning towards autonomous technics for their obvious advantages. Our previous article “Autonomous Material Handling” was all about the different types of autonomous systems and their implementations in manufacturing industries. We also discussed quite in length, the pros of such advanced systems over the manual ones and their numerous benefits to the companies adopting them. While talking about the autonomous systems, we also touch based upon mobile robots or we call them – AGVs. Let us continue this discussion about Automated Guided Vehicles in details, which…